The Investor's Toolbox (Paperback)

As a private investor, mistimed or misplaced usage of financial instruments, or reliance on just a couple of financial tools can mean that you’re not equipped to cope with the bear as well as the bull markets. The professionals use a whole range of financial instruments to tune their portfolios to the markets. There is no reason why private investors can't do the same.

This book helps you to use these tools to tailor your portfolio, by identifying your risk and vulnerabilities and knowing where to go from there. The emphasis of the book is on equipping the investor with enough knowledge of the different tools at your disposal to be able to use the right ones at the right time to minimize losses and maximise gains.

 Use the right tools at the right times to prosper in any market.

As a private investor, mistimed or misplaced usage of financial instruments, or reliance on just a couple of financial tools can mean that you’re not equipped to cope with the bears as well as the bulls. The investment professionals use a whole range of financial instruments to tune their portfolios to the markets. There is no reason why you can’t do the same.

Using these tools to tailor your portfolio is like tuning your car for fuel economy or speed, it’s about identifying your risk and vulnerabilities and knowing where to go from there. The emphasis of this book is firmly on equipping the investor with enough knowledge of the different tools at your disposal to be able to use the right ones at the right time to minimize losses and maximise gains.

The New Investor Toolbox will introduce you to a comprehensive range of tools and techniques, including:

• Stop losses 
• Short selling
• CFDs
• Options
• Futures
• Spread Betting
• Exchange Traded Funds
• Covered Warrants
• Hedge Funds

In this book Henry Harington and Alexander Hoar will help the ambitious and the wary investor to manage their risk and increase their wealth in all market conditions. Find out how the tools work, what they can do for you, and how and when to apply them in the real world.

 

Alexander Hoar has over 12 years experience working in the city, specialising in the LIFFE and London Traded Options markets.

Henry Harrington has had a distinguished career as a financial journalist writing on capital markets, banking and investment management for some of the worlds best known publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the Economist.

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